Boy
oh boy what a miraculous week this week has been! But first things
first, happy birthday to my grandma Walker, the one who really holds my
high school diploma, not me! She edited every single one of my essays
that I wrote in high school, and some of those must have been painful to
read , trust me I know.
But buckle up because the
description of my week will sound like I'm in South America, but I'm
not, I'm in Finland! So to get things going I will start off with a bold
power statement like we use in contacting. This week culminated in 6
new investigators and the addition of one other investigator yesterday
and someone actually called us back! That last line right there makes
any missionaries jaw drop. But believe it or not they (investigators)
were all found through the area book! When I first got here we decided
to do tons of area book work and follow up with or attempt to follow up
with them many times. Our system is start with the former investigator,
call 3 times, after no answer or response send them a text and if still
no response visit them when possible. This of course is spread out over a
monthish. We had set up 2 lessons from the area book for Thursday when
we had splits with the zone leaders (Elders Suorsa adn Nissen) and a lot
of names to follow up on. So we we split up, Elder Nissen and I took on
one area while Elders Suorsa and Johnson took on another area. In their
area we had a potential family which we found through following up on a
former who had no longer lived in the same building so we tracted it
and ran into them there as we knocked on their door. AS they followed up
with them they let them in and taught a lesson with a return
appointment set up. Boom, 2 new investigators (husband and wife). After
them Elder Suorsa had a thought to follow up with a different former he
had in that area back when he served there. As they went there they came
to find out that they no longer lived there, but someone else was now
living there and invited them in. There were two people, both listened
and they invited them back. Boom, 2 more new investigators. Then both of
our lessons went through that night totaling to 6 new investigators, in
one day. But it gets better.
We got a few pretty solid contacts it
seems from our finding efforts that day as well. Any ways, skip ahead to
Sunday where we go back to teach the two friends again, although they
weren't there, but a different guy opens the door. We didn't recognize
him at first (assuming he was our investigator) we ask him if he has
time to meet right now and he says "Not today but tomorrow I do." After
a second we realize that this was not our investigator and that it was
indeed his roommate. Anyways we went back on Monday and taught him the
first lesson, committing him and many other of our new investigators to
baptism in the first lesson. Then after our lesson as we are going to
catch our bus to take us home we stop a Chinese man who is Christian and
we set up a lesson with him on Wednesday. And this morning a potential
we called a while ago calls us back and we set up a lesson with him for
Friday! Wow I can not believe this week! Miracles upon miracles! We have
been blessed tremendously!
Have a great week! I love you all!
-Vanhin Robison
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